ANÁLISE DAS CANÇÕES my tears ricochet e mad woman A PARTIR DA PERSPECTIVA DA TEORIA DE GÊNERO INTERSECCIONAL

Abstract

Taylor Swift is a singer from United States who started her carrer in the country genre, but establish herself as a singer that works with differents kinds of music genres. She is known for composing her own songs, and in 2020, during the pandemic of Covid-19, she decided to release the album folklore with 16 new songs. This essay seeks to analyze two song lyrics, “my tears ricochet” and “mad woman”, of this album through the intersectional perspective of American Feminist Criticism. Using the text of Paige L. Sweet, Stephanie Sarkis and Lourdes Maria Bandeira, we seek to investigate how gaslighting is related to gender inequality and violence against women. Through out this research, we explore how these subjects are addressed in the song lyrics. Furthermore, we seek to identify how feminine madness is portrayed in the mad woman’s song lyrics, if it’s connected to feminine rebellion as Gilbert and Gubar investigate or to mental illness as Donaldson studies, and if this type of representation is appropriate or not.